Dears, A little swimmer/swim coach talk seems in order to describe how my thoughts are coming together about going back to Seoul. Before a race, swimmers can experience any number of emotions or feelings. As a swimmer and as a coach, I used to remind me/them to be goal-driven not mood-driven. It doesn’t matter what…

Dears! I’m leaving for South Korea in 8 days! I simply don’t know what to do with my adrenaline, so I’m pretending to design to a book that isn’t yet written. Jeez, isn’t that what Hollywood does? Start with the marketing and go backwards from there? At the Frankfort, Kentucky Book Fair back in November,…

Dears, The time is 12:36 p.m. and I’ve already had one hell of a day. In the best possible way. David was crying at 9 a.m. because he couldn’t draw a hand or foot very well. I showed him a picture of the Mona Lisa because some people say her fingers look odd. “See D,”…